Event HF144

Weird World of Wonders!

Saturday 9 June 2012, 11.30am
Venue: Llwyfan Cymru – Wales Stage

Join us for a headlong gallop through time with the Time Team presenter, as he points out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about the Egyptians and Romans. It's history, but not as we know it.

Event 430

Double Cross - The True Story of the D-Day Spies

Saturday 9 June 2012, 1pm
Venue: Llwyfan Cymru – Wales Stage

The author of Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat uncovers the six extraordinary double-agents at the heart of the deception that enabled the 150,000-strong invasion force to land in Normandy on 6 June 1944.

In partnership with Commonwealth Writers

Event 433

The Future of Travel Writing

Saturday 9 June 2012, 1pm
Venue: Digital Stage

What can the travel writer offer in an age of Trip Advisor and Wikipedia? Are we tired of foreigners writing about other people’s places? Journalists and authors Oliver Balch and Chris Moss join Slow Travel writer Les Lumsdon. Chaired by The Telegraph’s Deputy Head of Travel.

Event 434

Saturday 9 June 2012, 1pm
Venue: Bookshop Cinema

Maryam d'Abo suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage in 2007 and is lucky to be alive. Her experience inspired this film and leads the viewer on a personal journey of recovery, giving a sense of hope to those who are isolated by their condition that is not seen and is therefore often misunderstood. D’Abo and the director Hugh Hudson will be speaking on Monday in event 170.

Event HF148

Saturday 9 June 2012, 1pm
Venue: Hay on Earth Stage

Come and discover a wild world of magical creatures and heroic adventures from the extraordinary imagination behind Mortal Engines. Plus, we're (not so) secretly hoping Sarah and Philip will mention their forthcoming series Seawigs.

Event 436

Sudden Presence

Saturday 9 June 2012, 2.30pm
Venue: Sky Arts Studio

The acclaimed traveller, biographer and literary sleuth reads from his new collection of investigations Traces Remain and talks about his fascination with the hidden details of the past, and the ‘sudden presence’ of distant historical figures. Chaired by Simon Mundy

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Event 437

My Father’s Fortune

Saturday 9 June 2012, 2.30pm
Venue: Barclays Pavilion

The novelist and playwright (whose Noises Off is currently playing in London) discusses his childhood memoir and his exploration of his father’s story My Father's Fortune. His new novel Skios is a story of mislaid identity, misdirected passion and miscalculated consequences set on a Greek Island.

Event 438

The Greeks 6 - The Song of Achilles and The Whispering Muse

Saturday 9 June 2012, 2.30pm
Venue: Hay on Earth Stage

The Song of Achilles is a re-imagining of the love story at the heart of Homer’s Iliad; The Whispering Muse pitches the mythic hero Caeneus and his tales of the Argonauts, the Golden Fleece and Lemnos onto a Scandinavian merchant ship in 1949.